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ALVAREZ ROMERO, Ana Lourdes. "La tona" and "Hículi Hualula" as two antithetical visions of the indigenous in El diosero, by Franciso Rojas González. Valenciana [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.23, pp.7-27. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i23.387.

This paper analyzes two tales from the important but unexplored book El diosero (1952), by Francisco Rojas González, as two antithetical positions on the indigenous. "La tona" and "Hícula Hualula" are part of a context where the debate about Mexicanness was in vogue in the literary institution as well as in the anthropological one. Anthropologist by profession, Rojas González appears as a figure who, through one of his narrations, would problematize the discipline to which he belonged. The author's position on indigenous knowledge would set a precedent for later Mexican indigenist literature and for the Latin American thought that would put in doubt the superiority of West's knowledge.

Palavras-chave : Rojas González; Anthropology; Indigenism; Tona; Hícula Hualula.